Independence Day 

An inflated and flag-waving throwback to the grand space movies and disaster flicks of the 1950s and ’70s; the story, where Earth is attacked by aliens and must retaliate, could…

Romancing the Stone 

New York City romance novelist Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) goes to Colombia to help her sister who's been kidnapped, and gets unexpected aid from a bird smuggler (Michael Douglas). After…

Far from Heaven 

Rainer Werner Fassbinder wasn’t the only one in awe of Douglas Sirk. In this drama, Todd Haynes recreated everything from Sirk's films to perfection. One in particular in fact, All…

Dogville 

The residents of Dogville, Colorado, agree to offer runaway Grace (Nicole Kidman) sanctuary, with discomforting consequences. Lars von Trier’s first part of a planned trilogy about the U.S. was shot…

X-Men: Days of Future Past

In 2023, most mutants have been wiped out by man-made robots called Sentinels; with the help of Shadowcat (Ellen Page), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) is sent back in time to 1973…

Scary MoVie 

Jody and Dan Sanders (Ashley Tisdale, Simon Rex) reluctantly agree to take care of a couple of feral children who are related to them, but that means also inviting "Mama"…

Godzilla 

15 years after the death of his mother in a mysterious accident at a nuclear power plant in Japan, bomb technician Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is told by his father…

The Hunger Games 

As punishment for a past uprising, twelve districts must offer their rulers two "tributes", a boy and a girl, to compete in the Hunger Games where they fight to the…

Mystic River: Gone Girl

Sean Penn. Photo: Warner After the phenomenal Unforgiven (1992), the movie that won Clint Eastwood an Oscar as director, the aging director went on making a slew of films in…